QR Code Press

Increase in smartphones will cause growth in mobile marketing budgets this year

01/15/201201/15/2012 John Montgallo

As the sale of smartphones is spreading like wildfire, marketers are responding by increasing their budgets to advertise and promote through various methods that use these mobile device as their primary channel. According to Digital Marketer, the top marketing newsletter online in the world, marketing via mobile phone is going to begin replacing more traditional methods that marketers use to reach consumers. Nielsen data says that an estimated 43 percent of cell phone subscribers in the United States have smartphones. However, even with this massive number of smartphones in the…

Research from Scanbuy shows awareness and adoption of QR codes solid among American marketers

01/14/201201/14/2012 John Montgallo

A recent study performed by Scanbuy, Inc. – the creator of the mobile barcode platform, Scanlife – has shown that marketers in the United States are very aware of two dimensional barcodes and they are adopting this technology quite solidly among many industries. The study included the participation of over 100 marketers from businesses ranging from small to quite large, and within industries such as retail, healthcare, and entertainment. Its results showed that half of the key decision makers are already using the technology as an element of their overall…

Zmags accelerates mobile growth with $7 million in financing

01/12/201201/12/2012 Jesse Collins

Top rich media mobile and social merchandising provider, Zmags, has announced that it has achieved financing worth $7 million from Square 1Bank as well as its current investors, Northcap Partners and OpenView Venture Partners. This additional funding has come at a time when Zmags has every intention to build on its customer portfolio by adding world-class, innovative consumer brands and retailers such as Express, Kenneth Cole, and Tesco. Those organizations are already using CommercePro, from Zmags, to form consistent and intelligent marketing and merchandising campaigns using the power of platforms…

Mobzio.com and AdMobix partner together to offer effective mobile marketing solutions to marketers

01/07/201201/07/2012 L. Green

The share of digital marketing that is shifting toward mobile is growing quite rapidly, causing the m-commerce environment to continually change with each passing day. In order to respond to the needs that are developing as a result of this condition, Mobzio.com – a mobile marketing blog aggregator – has partnered with AdMobix – a mobile affiliate network – in the hopes of assisting mobile marketers to find the solutions that they need to effectively achieve the results they desire. Throughout 2011, mobile searches increased by four times, and in…

Report highlights some of the pitfalls in QR code use that could break marketing campaigns

01/03/2012 Stephen Vagus

Though QR codes have been used extensively in Japan, many companies using the codes in the U.S. have yet to follow the examples set by the Eastern market. Many of the businesses and marketers using the codes do so as a way to quickly engage consumers. This instant-satisfaction treatment has proven successful, to an extent, but marketers could see much better results by avoiding simple pitfalls. The Mobile Marketing Association has released a new report detailing some of the problems facing the use of QR codes. The report offers up…